Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.
Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.
Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.
What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.